Date: July – August 2010 Torrential rains during the monsoon season in 2010 put a fifth of Pakistan under water including the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan regions. Close to 2,000 lives were lost and 21 million others affected by the...
Focused Sector(s): Education Project: Special Needs Training (SPENT) Date and duration: December 2009 / 12 months Location: Ho Chi Minh City Beneficiaries: 40 special needs caregivers/teaching staff and 1,000 special needs students from five different schools...
Date: March – June 2009 A major humanitarian crisis unfolded in the Swat Valley in March 2009 following the violation of a peace agreement by the Pakistani Taliban. The conflict displaced some two million residents of the Swat Valley, which also suffered...
Focused Sector(s): Education Project: English for Everyone (EFE) Date and duration: July 2009 / 8 months Location: Ho Chi Minh City Beneficiaries: Five English language teachers from the University of Finance and Marketing (UFM) and 53 other teachers, benefitting...
Date: 26 September 2009 Category: 2 (Tropical Cyclone) Typhoon Ketsana was the second most devastating tropical cyclone of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, bringing 455mm of rain to the Philippines over a 24 hour period on September 26, before moving on to hit...
Date: 8 October 2005 Magnitude: 7.6 The devastating earthquake that struck Pakistan-administered Kashmir in October 2005 resulted in the loss of more than 80,000 lives with more than 41,000 injured. Entire villages were destroyed, leaving survivors homeless with...
Date: November – December 2015 Incessant rain in India’s southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in November and December 2015 led to massive flooding. More than 340 fatalities were recorded, 280 of them in Tamil Nadu alone, with...
Date: September 2014 Torrential monsoon rains that began at the start of September 2014 triggered mass flooding and widespread damage in Pakistan and parts of northern India. More than 2.53 million people were affected, with 1,000 dead across Nepal, Bangladesh,...
Focused Sector(s): Healthcare Project: Better Healthcare, Better Health Date and duration: July 2012, July 2013, July 2014 (12 months each) Location: Padang, West Sumatra Beneficiaries: 7,000 villagers Problem(s) Lower income families in suburban areas are often...
Focused Sector(s): Water, Sanitation, Livelihood Project: Water for Life and Livelihood Date and duration: April 2012, April 2013, April 2014 (6 months each) Location: Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra Beneficiaries: 328 families Problem(s) The West Sumatra Earthquake in...
